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I am currently a freshman in college and have very limited time to practice piano. However, I have been playing for about 11-12 years and have already reached a relatively advanced level. Does anyone have any ideas for classical pieces I can practice that are short but will help me to keep up my technique? I enjoy all the eras.

If you want to play a lot of difficult stuffbut lack the time, strength, and skill to do it,then one way is to just play a page of eachper day. For example, if you want to work on 3 Rachmaninoff concertos, 5 Chopinetudes, and 10 other virtuosic pieces, butdon't have the time or technique to run throughall of them in one sitting, then just playa page of each per day. That's just 18pages of music per day, well within therange of any fairly good player. Then intime you might be able to do 2 pages ofeach per day, then 3, and so forth.

Originally posted by la_pianista: I am currently a freshman in college and have very limited time to practice piano. However, I have been playing for about 11-12 years and have already reached a relatively advanced level. Does anyone have any ideas for classical pieces I can practice that are short but will help me to keep up my technique? I enjoy all the eras. [/b]

Doesn't a meaningful response to this question depend upon1) what your level of performance is - saying that you have played 11-12 years doesn't say anything about your level of achievement or what repertoire you have learned and mastered2) how quickly you learn3) what aspects of technique you want to "keep up"

Furthermore, unless you are looking for unusual rarely heard works - and you didn't say so in your original post - it would seem to me that someone who has been playing for 11-12 years would have a fairly good idea of what repertoire would suit your current needs.

Originally posted by Robert Kenessey: Honestly, I understand that Frédéric did not want it published. [/b]

I know this is off topic, but, according to Maurice Hinson in his Anatomy of a Classic Edition of this piece, it is likely that the piece was not published due to a resemblance between its theme and that of Impromptu in Eb, Op. 89 by Ignaz Moscheles. This theory was proposed by Arthur Hedley. Also, Ernest Oster suggested that the piece was not published due to a resemblance between its theme and that of the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27 No. 2.

Also, FI was written for the Autograph Album of Baroness d'Este, with the indication that it was probably a paid commission, which would also account for why it was not published.

I don't think we can deny that this is a masterpiece, and I'm sure Chopin recognized it as such, too.